Sentence examples for no spade from inspiring English sources

But I've no spade to follow men like them.

One no-trump with no spade stopper is unappealing.

"I've no spade to follow men like them," he wrote.

Breed was awkwardly placed, with a strong hand but no spade fit and no heart stopper.

For all Fernandes's boasts about long-term strategies, still no spade has gone into the earth on the promised new training facilities.

After West made a Michaels Cue-Bid to show his major two-suiter, the two-heart response by North indicated at least game-invitational values with a heart stopper and no spade stopper.

"The thing that shocked us most of all was the fact we could not find any gardening tools around--no spades, no shovels, no axes, nothing.

No spades or hammers are needed to persuade the earth to give up its secrets a combination of rain and pounding from the sea produces regular landslides that scatter fossils on the beaches for passing palaeontologists.

It was normal to bid game in no-trump, spades or hearts.

A doughty campaigner in this field is Jeff Rubens, editor of The Bridge World magazine, who long ago suggested using "strain" rather than the unsatisfactory "denomination" to indicate no-trump, spades, hearts, diamonds or clubs.

If left in peace, North-South would no doubt have arrived in three no-trump: one diamond; one spade; two no-trump, and three no-trump.